Mary Scott (Laidlaw) Black (1859 - 1949)

Born 25 Dec 1859 in Morris township, Huron County, Canada West

Ancestors

Died 21 Dec 1949 at age 89 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Biography

Mary was born in 1859 in Morris township of Huron County, Canada West (Ontario). She was the daughter of John Laidlaw and Agnes Waldie. (No birth record has been seen online, but Mary is fully documented in the Laidlaw family records.)

Mary S. Laidlaw appeared with her parents, John and Agnes, and siblings in the 1871 Census of Canada in Morris township of Huron County, Ontario. ^[1]

Mary went west with her parents around 1882 when her father took the family to Regina in, what was then, the North West Territories. It was in Regina that Mary Scott Laidlaw married Charles H. Black on 22 September 1885. (no record found online)

In 1901, Mary S. Black was enumerated in Winnipeg, Manitoba with her husband Charles H. Black and two children: Marion I. and Margaret E., both born in the North West Territories (probably Saskatchewan). ^[2]

The 1911 Census of Canada has full names and birth month and year for this Black family in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mary Scott Black, born December 1859, was the wife of Charles Hyde Black (b. Sept. 1857, Ont.) and mother of Isabel Marion Black (b. Nov. 1889, Sask) and Margaret Elizabeth (b. May 1895, Sask.). ^[3]

She passed away in 1949 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery with her husband, Charles H. Black. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "Canada Census, 1871," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M47Z-B6D : 24 October 2018), Mary S Laidlaw in household of John Laidlaw, Morris, Huron, Ontario, Canada; citing 1871; citing National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
2. ↑ "Canada Census, 1901," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHK9-TKH : 16 December 2019), Mary S Black in household of Charles H Black, Winnipeg (city/cité), Manitoba, Canada; citing p. 14, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.
3. ↑ "Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV95-FSH4 : 16 March 2018), Mary Scott Black in entry for Charles Hyde Black, 1911; citing Census, Winnipeg Sub-Districts 1-29, Manitoba, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,417,671.
4. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 11 October 2020), memorial page for Mary S Black (unknown–Dec 1949), Find a Grave Memorial no. 122644281, citing Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada ; Maintained by Christina (contributor 46772328) .

• Laidlaw family tree and records, collected by Howard S. Anderson (Ontario Genealogical Society # 7031) 21 April 1993.